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[MS. Torn] [great] anxiety and uncertainty. The Yankees we hear [MS. Torn] [have] advanced as far as Readyville. I dont suppose their cavalry will come this way while Morgan is here__ but there is no telling. Maj. Rowan has a dispatch from Harris yesterday which did not encourage us any. It was to the effect that we were not now safe__ that the Yankees might come to McMinnville attempting to flank Bragg & if so Bragg unless re-inforced would be compelled to fall back to Chattanooga. I presume B. will ultimately fall back as according to Harris he has had no reinforcements as yet. Indeed I dont see where the reinforcements are to come from__ our troops it is true are now resting on their laurels in Va__ and yet if we were to have them moved from thence__ the Yanks there might sound the on to Richmond again. However there is no denying that fewer men could whip those Yankees there than can whip those western abolitionists here__ therefore Bragg needs the men most. A very sensible article appeared in a late ^ Savannah paper which said that Bragg was obliged to be re-inforced any how & hed better be so now while Rosecrans was weakened__ for he is weaker now then he will ever be again. The late rains have had a bad effect on the Cumberland & Tenn. rivers__ causing a rise over which the Feds are crowing lustily. There is a rumor that Wheeler has been down on the Cumberland below Nashville and done great damage to their transports & a wooden gunboat__ but how true it is we cannot yet say.__

[MS. Torn] [great] anxiety and uncertainty. The Yankees we hear [MS. Torn] [have] advanced as far as Readyville. I dont suppose their cavalry will come this way while Morgan is here__ but there is no telling. Maj. Rowan has a dispatch from Harris yesterday which did not encourage us any. It was to the effect that we were not now safe__ that the Yankees might come to McMinnville attempting to flank Bragg & if so Bragg unless re-inforced would be compelled to fall back to Chattanooga. I presume B. will ultimately fall back as according to Harris he has had no reinforcements as yet. Indeed I dont see where the reinforcements are to come from__ our troops it is true are now resting on their laurels in Va__ and yet if we were to have them moved from thence__ the Yanks there might sound the on to Richmond again. However there is no denying that fewer men could whip those Yankees there than can whip those western abolitionists here__ therefore Bragg needs the men most. A very sensible article appeared in a late ^ Savannah paper which said that Bragg was obliged to be re-inforced any how & hed better be so now while Rosecrans was weakened__ for he is weaker now then he will ever be again. The late rains have had a bad effect on the Cumberland & Tenn. rivers__ causing a rise over which the Feds are crowing lustily. There is a rumor that Wheeler has been down on the Cumberland below Nashville and done great damage to their transports & a wooden gunboat__ but how true it is we cannot yet say.__

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